We’ve got a couple of new slideshows up today, one featuring the awesome nature photography of Joel Sartore, and the other the horrible lyrics of Avril Lavigne, Fall Out Boy and Maroon 5. Turns out nature and pop music can both be pretty damn brutal. — Keith Plocek

This article appears in Dec 13-19, 2007.

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